Devour Me

by Lydia Parks

In "Dark Obsession," a vampire is drawn to a woman who has taken refuge in his home; while in "Blood Lust," a vampire archaeologist desperately struggles to become mortal after falling in love. By the author of Addicted. Original.

325 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Sarah Baker grew up in New Orleans, the city of music, fun, and food. After a year of college, she dropped out and ran off to Alaska to enjoy a taste of the Wild West pipeline days. Three years later, Sarah returned to the Lower 48 and earned a Master's degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

As a civil engineer for the federal government, she spends a lot of time in the woods, and was even sent to Siberia for a brief assignment. Sarah and her husband have lived all over the United States from Mississippi to Alaska, and currently reside in New Mexico. While moving around, she stumbled onto the joy of her life--writing.

Sarah writes romance as Sarah Storme, erotica as Lydia Parks, and mystery as S.H. Baker. Her writing credits include the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series, the Hearts of Marshall's Bayou Historical Romance series, Addicted, Devour Me, and more.

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Reviews

[Jacklyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

dnf at 80%

[CraftyBirdies · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories were very similar in structure, which makes sense because they are by the same author. But they didn't do it for me. There were two major reasons I didn't love these. The first was the structure with the flashbacks. Take two vampires and there are constant flashbacks to when they become vampires as well as other key moments in their 'existence'. The constant flashbacks took me out of the actual story happening and ruined the flow. I couldn't feel any tension or hope or excitement about the story because I kept getting thrown into a flashback story.

Secondly, the sex wasn't hot enough. If the stories and characters themselves were GREAT, then I'm okay with sexual tension but minimal sex scenes, etc. But the premise of these stories (aka reading the back of the book) is all about the hunger and wanting sexually, but then the sex scenes are lackluster. The scenes are few and far between for the length of each story and I wasn't hooked. That might be because I couldn't get into the stories due to the flashbacks...but I didn't care about the characters enough to root for them. I had hope the second story would be better but they are very similar in my 'problems' with them.

[Regina taylor]

i kinda like it

[Joyce Mohr · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good book. I liked both stories in it.